TikTok says it has finalised deal to establish US entity, avoiding Trump ban
Video sharing site’s Chinese owner ByteDance has set up majority US-owned venture
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A grand social media experiment begins in Australia. Will it work?
The country is trying to wean children under 16 off TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube and Instagram with a new law. Teenagers are sceptical
China’s tech giants take AI model training offshore to tap Nvidia chips
Alibaba and ByteDance shift development to south-east Asia to sidestep US curbs
China accuses Nvidia of breaching competition rules as trade talks with US heat up in Madrid
US seeks resolution of TikTok ownership impasse ahead of ban as talks continue against background of grim Chinese economic data
Mark Zuckerberg haunted by old emails in high-stakes US trial
Meta founder’s antitrust defence rests on showing that TikTok is rapidly expanding in his main market
Deadline for US sale of TikTok is extended
Trump says additional 75 days will allow US companies more time to finalise acquisition deal
White House close to approving sale of TikTok’s US unit
April 5th deadline will ban Chinese app in America unless sold
Competitive parenting in China: ‘School starts at 7.30am and I pick him up at 9.30 in the evening. We usually arrive home around 10pm. Then he studies again’
Fierce competition for places at top secondary schools drives some parents to push their youngsters to succeed, believing they owe it to their children to give them the best start in life
More corporate chiefs fall in line behind Napoleonic Trump
Former Trump critic Sam Altman of OpenAI suddenly reckons the US president ‘will be incredible for the country in many ways’
TikTok restores service in US after Donald Trump pledges a reprieve
President-elect says he will give Chinese-owned app more time to find a buyer hours after TikTok pulls plug on 170m users
Is TikTok’s US shutdown any more than a game of musical chairs among Chinese apps?
After the US supreme court upheld a ban on the video app unless it sheds its Chinese owners, a final decision on action rests with politicians
Advertising revenues set to hit $1tn in market dominated by technology companies
Omnicom and Interpublic in talks to merge in $30bn-plus deal to create the world’s largest advertising agency
US court upholds law that could ban TikTok
Further appeal expected for bipartisan measure targeting ByteDance-owned video app over security concerns
TikTok, ByteDance sue to block US law seeking sale or ban of app
Chinese firm says divestiture ‘is simply not possible: not commercially, not technologically, not legally’
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